It’s known for promoting positive feelings, but more recent research has found that oxytocin can promote negative emotions, too. The authors of a new review…
Drawing on published studies on the effects of cell phone use and recent global initiatives advancing cell phone safety, Dr. Davis discusses the various ways…
Two new studies published in the August issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM) provide insight intothe potential of positron emission tomography (PET)…
European consumption experts today called for a new research policy on sustainable food consumption. Facing recent food crises around the globe, European food…
Taking a leukemia chemotherapy drug may help breast cancer patients who don't respond to tamoxifen overcome resistance to the widely-used drug, new research…
ut which parenting styles work best with which kids? A study by University of Washington psychologists provides advice about tailoring parenting to children's…
According to preventive medicine and behavioral experts at Rush University Medical Center, research supports a new counseling approach that views obesity as a…
CT is an essential tool for the accurate diagnosis of disease and injury but is associated with radiation doses higher than those of conventional X-ray…
In fact, their review of scientific literature, published today in the August issue of The Journal of Family Practice, demonstrates that colon cleansing can…
A team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has laid bare the mechanism behind a phenomenon called oncogene addiction in mice suffering from a…
Osteoporosis is the reduction in bone strength that occurs during aging, which increases the chance of elderly people experiencing breaks. A genome-wide…
A new national collaboration of asthma genetics researchers has revealed a novel gene associated with the disease in African-Americans, according to a new…
For the thousands of patients who receive kidney transplants in the United States each year, preventing organ rejection without compromising other aspects of…
Side effects associated with this situation over the long term range from stroke to seizure to heart damage to death. Patients also suffer in the short term…
In the 1930s, before the discovery of the gluten-free diet as the way to manage coeliac disease, results from Great Ormond Street Hospital in London1 showed…
The drugs, known as aromatase inhibitors, are commonly prescribed to shrink breast tumors fueled by the hormone estrogen and help prevent cancer recurrence….